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The image to the left is of the colon of a dead lab mouse, though it wouldn’t look out of place on the walls of a hip art museum. The photo was made possible by a new technology to study bacteria called “tunable expression tools” developed by researchers Weston Whitaker and Liz Stanley in the Sonnenburg Lab at Stanford.

Imagine this: you’ve been working on a paper for a couple hours. You take a quick break to watch some funny YouTube videos. Thanks to net neutrality, YouTube loads at the same speed as any of the articles you’ve been researching, making it extremely convenient to take your break. Now imagine that net neutrality is eliminated. Suddenly, instead of your

Music-brain by Wuhuiru55 is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Almost everyone has encountered an earworm slowly wriggling its way into their thoughts. Despite the name’s sinister ring, this creepy-crawler is not in fact a living creature and rarely causes medical harm. Instead, people experiencing earworms are more likely to find themselves unconsciously tapping their feet and mouthing the words to

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Whale sharks have the ability to fertilize their eggs at different times. Scientists discovered this when a whale shark caught off the coast of Taiwan had around 280 babies of varying ages in her body.

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